CentOS - Mar 2007 - kickstart - how do I specify I20_block driver

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 11:46:10AM -0800, Karl R. Balsmeier enlightened
us:
> I have alot of kickstart and scripting going on as I provision lots of 
> machines, and every now and then I run into a pesky machine or three 
> that's still got that Adeptec zero-channel RAID card sitting on the 
> board.  Normally I like to rip it our and throw something more robust 
> in, but if it's a cache machine or whatever, I leave it in.
> 
> It makes my kickstart file useless until I ask you, the list, how do I 
> edit the kickstart file to tell the installer to add this driver and use 
> it.  If I don't, I get an error that says roughly "no suitable
disk
> devices found to install on".
> 
> i'm calling kickstart like this (thanks to Joshua-Baker LePain's
advice
> a while back)
> 
> linux ks=http://192.168.my.webserver/serverx.ks ip=192.168.whatever.ip 
> netmask=255.255.255.248 gateway=192.168.x.1 dns=my.dns.server.ip
> 
> Is there a section I should edit just before this disks in the kickstart 
> file are called to call and use the i20_block driver, or do I pass it as 
> a parameter at the kickstart command line?
> 
You can likely do it with a driver disk (dd=... argument to anaconda) and a
device scsi .... section in your kickstart file.

Matt

-- 
Matt Hyclak
Department of Mathematics 
Department of Social Work
Ohio University
(740) 593-1263

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 at 11:46am, Karl R. Balsmeier wrote
> I have alot of kickstart and scripting going on as I provision lots of 
> machines, and every now and then I run into a pesky machine or three
that's
> still got that Adeptec zero-channel RAID card sitting on the board. 
Normally
> I like to rip it our and throw something more robust in, but if it's a
cache
> machine or whatever, I leave it in.
>
> It makes my kickstart file useless until I ask you, the list, how do I edit
> the kickstart file to tell the installer to add this driver and use it.  If
I
> don't, I get an error that says roughly "no suitable disk devices
found to
> install on".
>
> i'm calling kickstart like this (thanks to Joshua-Baker LePain's
advice a
> while back)
>
> linux ks=http://192.168.my.webserver/serverx.ks ip=192.168.whatever.ip 
> netmask=255.255.255.248 gateway=192.168.x.1 dns=my.dns.server.ip
>
> Is there a section I should edit just before this disks in the kickstart
file
> are called to call and use the i20_block driver, or do I pass it as a 
> parameter at the kickstart command line?
You may need to add 'nostorage' to the anaconda line above, and then you
can use either 'device scsi i2o_block' or 'driverdisk' in the
kickstart
file.  Details on those options here:
<http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html>.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

Hi,

I have alot of kickstart and scripting going on as I provision lots of 
machines, and every now and then I run into a pesky machine or three 
that's still got that Adeptec zero-channel RAID card sitting on the 
board.  Normally I like to rip it our and throw something more robust 
in, but if it's a cache machine or whatever, I leave it in.

It makes my kickstart file useless until I ask you, the list, how do I 
edit the kickstart file to tell the installer to add this driver and use 
it.  If I don't, I get an error that says roughly "no suitable disk 
devices found to install on".

i'm calling kickstart like this (thanks to Joshua-Baker LePain's advice 
a while back)

linux ks=http://192.168.my.webserver/serverx.ks ip=192.168.whatever.ip 
netmask=255.255.255.248 gateway=192.168.x.1 dns=my.dns.server.ip

Is there a section I should edit just before this disks in the kickstart 
file are called to call and use the i20_block driver, or do I pass it as 
a parameter at the kickstart command line?

-karlski